Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION (IDENTIFYING PEOPLE) ACT 2002 - SECT 68A

68A .         Identifying information of serious offenders

        (1)         In this section —

        former Schedule 1 clause 6 means Schedule 1 clause 6 as in effect under the former section 95;

        former section 95 means section 95 as in effect before it was repealed by the Criminal Investigation (Consequential Provisions) Act 2006 section 40.

        (2)         Identifying information of a serious offender obtained under Part 8A —

            (a)         may be compared with other information, whether or not in a forensic database, as soon as it is obtained; and

            (b)         may be put in a forensic database as soon as it is obtained; and

            (c)         may be used to obtain any identifying particular of the offender; and

            (d)         must be destroyed if the serious offender ceases to be a serious offender and destruction is requested under section 69 by or on behalf of the offender.

        (3)         Subsection (2) applies in relation to identifying information of a serious offender obtained under the former Schedule 1 clause 6 as if the references in subsection (2)(a) and (b) to “as soon as it is obtained” were deleted.

        [Section 68A inserted: No. 22 of 2013 s. 27.]